The Concept of Double Jeopardy: Background. The double jeopardy clause in the Fifth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution prohibits the government from prosecuting individuals more than one time for a single offense and from imposing more than one punishment for a single offense. It provides that No person shall ...
For other uses, see The First Men in the Moon (disambiguation). The First Men in the Moon is a scientific romance published in 1901 by the English author H. G. Wells, who called it one of his fantastic stories. The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the two protagonists, a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford, and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor.
Several years after NASA claimed its first Moon landing, Buzz Aldrin the second man on the Moon was asked at a banquet what it felt like to step on to the lunar surface. Aldrin staggered to his feet and left the room crying uncontrollably. It would not be the last time he did this.